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I have a harddisk which is marked as 60 gb.
But I tried to format the harddisk with several packages, and they say all the the harddisk is only 20gb.
How can I restore this disk to it's normal capacity?

 

 

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1 minute ago, JaiMaai said:

Posted again just before I saw your reply.

With the program "Testdisk", the program shows that the values for the partition are wrong (Heads & Sectors).
But this program doesn't allow to write the exact values for the partition.
The only way to achieve this would be to use a program to alter the partition information.
The way old MFM hard disk were formatted.
But I did not find any program who can do this.

 

Posted
6 minutes ago, JaiMaai said:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10

 

Be very careful trying to use this and make sure you work on the correct disk.

 

If you cleabn the wrong one you could wipe your system,

I don't mind if the hard disk is lost in this operation.
I only want to know if this is possible.

In the old days of DOS, you were supposed to enter the number of heads/Cylinders when partitioning a hard disk.
There should be a way to do this on this disk.

Posted
9 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

I don't mind if the hard disk is lost in this operation.
I only want to know if this is possible.

In the old days of DOS, you were supposed to enter the number of heads/Cylinders when partitioning a hard disk.
There should be a way to do this on this disk.

Diskpart (should) be able to do it all.

 

I've used it before to do similar fixes,  

Posted
8 minutes ago, JaiMaai said:

Diskpart (should) be able to do it all.

 

I've used it before to do similar fixes,  

Which version of Diskpart did you use?

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Open cmd as Administrator type-

 

- diskpart

- list disk

- select disk ?

- clean

- create partition primary

- list partiton 

- select partition ?

- format fs=fat32 quick

- active 

- exit

Posted
4 minutes ago, Heppinger said:

Open cmd as Administrator type-

 

- diskpart

- list disk

- select disk ?

- clean

- create partition primary

- list partiton 

- select partition ?

- format fs=fat32 quick

- active 

- exit

Partition = 20 gb
How to change this?

Posted
2 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

Partition = 20 gb
How to change this?

If i were you i wouldn't worry to much, as the disk is basically worthless, unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course

Posted
5 minutes ago, Heppinger said:

If i were you i wouldn't worry to much, as the disk is basically worthless, unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course

"unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course" = exactly.


I see many sellers in Facebook and Lazada who uses the same trick to sell 64GB memory cards which are in fact only 8 gb.
They change the information at the low-level to display 64gb when inserted in your computer, but with programs as Testdisk it show that they are only 8gb memory cards.
 

Posted
4 minutes ago, Logosone said:

EaseUS Partition master could be the answer.

This is basically the same as control panel/ system and security/ administrative tools/ create and format hard disk partitions.  If a clean in diskpart wont rectify it then I'd say the disk is faulty, It probably didn't pass QC at the factory and the boss told Jimmy Wong to throw all the faulty drives in the dumpster as DELL can't use them in their PC's, yet Jimmy had other plans.

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4 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

"unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course" = exactly.


I see many sellers in Facebook and Lazada who uses the same trick to sell 64GB memory cards which are in fact only 8 gb.
They change the information at the low-level to display 64gb when inserted in your computer, but with programs as Testdisk it show that they are only 8gb memory cards.
 

Yes true, but most of these fake drives were intended to be the "stamped" size, yet are faulty during manufacturing 

Posted
5 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

It's 12 years old, better to buy a new 120 GB SSD, from 505 THB

on Shopee or Lazada 

regards worgeordie

 

Welcome to 2018.

I don't want to worry you but I'd buy a lot of gold and shares in face mask companies.....

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sounds like to you have a linux or Mac partitioned disc which windows sometimes cannot see

download something onto USB and boot into it

or get this for windows and examine drive
https://ext2-volume-manager.en.lo4d.com/windows

 

its most certainly not a fake or faulty disc no one would waste their time

its old but 60gb still function able
if we treated Forum members the way we treat hardware most would be buried by now 
 

 

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Any adj/change/fix to a HDD C/H/S must be done in the BIOS, cannot be done with a partition manager.

The BIOS queries the HDD at POST (and usually) gets the info from the HDD controller.

Usually the BIOS is set to AUTO, but one can manually set C/H/S.

Posted
1 hour ago, mrfill said:

Its a 20gb drive. Useless for almost everything now. I'd install it in the cylindrical device in the corner - the one that holds the junk mail and crisp packets and go and buy a new SSD or even a USB stick. The time you are spending on a 14 year old knackered drive is worth far more than a new USB stick.

I doubt the original drive is hacked to show 60gb from 20gb. Its just not worth it for that small increase. The drive is dead, it is an ex-drive, it should be pushing up the daisies and visiting the choir invisible.....

Good for a separate page file,  then again being only a 5400rpm drive it's not even really good for that. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Metropolitian said:

What info does the bios give you about the harddisk?

 

very little.  diskpart using command prompt is all you need.

Posted
4 minutes ago, howto said:

Any adj/change/fix to a HDD C/H/S must be done in the BIOS, cannot be done with a partition manager.

The BIOS queries the HDD at POST (and usually) gets the info from the HDD controller.

Usually the BIOS is set to AUTO, but one can manually set C/H/S.

How do I access the HD BIOS?
Change it to C/H/S?

Posted
5 hours ago, Confuscious said:

How do I access the HD BIOS?
Change it to C/H/S?

My apologies, I should have been more clear ,,,

the Computer's BIOS, laptop or desktop ,,,

(you can't access the HDD BIOS directly)

- the HDD must be connected

- At Power ON, One presses a key (depends on make/model)

- BIOS screen usually has several tabs, look thru them.

- The HDD will (should) be listed

- It should be set to "AUTO"

I must urge CAUTION with changing, and manually entering C/H/S.

- SAVE THE SETTINGS,

- EXIT, system will reboot (should)

- I usually wait for the computer to finish booting then SHUTDOWN

- POWER ON, let system finish booting

- NOW ONE MAY

- - Check the disk params

- - partition disk and format the partition

 

Best wishes

- howto

 

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